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New documentary ‘Castro’s Spies’ to premiere online at GFF, 26 February – 1 March 2021

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202126/01/2021

Castro’s Spies is one of six films nominated for the prestigious Audience Award at the…

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  • Cuban Film

Annual Latin American Cinema Festival still takes flight in Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2020

“Cuban cinema is trying, in the midst of so many setbacks, to take flight.” These…

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  • Cuban Film

#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries about Cuba – from home Part 2

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/11/202031/12/2020

We have selected 10 more feature films and documentaries from and about Cuba to watch…

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival ONLINE 10-15 November 2020 with pre-fest events from 28 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/10/202019/12/2020

Havana Glasgow Film Festival (10 – 15 Nov 2020) goes online this year and presents…

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  • Cuban Film

Living Between Hurricanes – special screening 26 July 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/07/202004/08/2020

This is a film about the elements – hurricanes and rain, the sea and the…

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  • Cuban Film

Cinema: Just what the doctor ordered

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/07/202010/07/2020

The Havana Film Festival (also known as the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema)…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/06/2020

This 6 June Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of its newsreels with film screenings on…

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  • Cuban Film

#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries – from home

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/202019/12/2020

Here is our #CuarenCineCuba eclectic selection of 10 films – fiction and documentaries from and…

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  • Cuban Film

Juan Padron, comic creator of Elpidio Valdes

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/03/202018/07/2020

Juan Padrón was a Cuban animation director and comic artist, best known as the creator…

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  • Past events

CineCuba London – free screenings June-September 2020 – sorry postponed til further notice

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/03/202019/12/2020

  SORRY THESE SCREENINGS ARE POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS contact the organiser below for details…

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  • Cuban Film

National Film Award for Senel Paz, Strawberry & Chocolate screenwriter, and Francisco Prats

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/03/2020

Animation producer Francisco (Paco) Prats and screenwriter and professor Senel Paz have won the 2020…

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  • Cuban Film

Cine Cuba Programme February-December 2020, Manchester

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/202019/12/2020

New Cuban film club in Manchester presents documentaries and feature films from and about Cuba:…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban productions at the Havana Film Festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/12/201911/12/2019

This December 5-15 the annual International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana is…

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  • Cuban Film

Ten times Havana took over the big screen – films which star the city itself

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/11/201919/12/2020

The city of Havana has been a muse, a protagonist and also a cliché in…

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  • Past events

CineCuba – Documentaries and feature films from and about Cuba, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/10/201902/05/2020

CineCuba – Documentaries and feature films from and about Cuba screened upstairs at The Calthorpe…

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On a day like today 20 February the wonderful Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer was born in 1927. He passed away 15 years ago but his memory lives on with so many great Cuban songs. He was a great singer of son but sang many boleros with buena vista social club. Which is your favourite Ibrahim Ferrer track?
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Fatima Patterson is a top Cuban theatre actor, director and playwright, celebrating her 70th birthday this week. With her company Macuba she has dedicated the last 30 years to making amazing theatre embedded physically, narratively and spiritually in her home town of Santiago de Cuba. In this recent interview she talks about her approach to theatre, her themes, and her view on the way forward for artists out of the pandemic.
“Con todos, y para el bien de todos” (With everyone and for the benefit of everyone)
New documentary 'Castro's Spies' will make its debut in the UK screened online from 26 February as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
From 19-24 January Cuba's world-renowned festival #JazzPlaza2021 is offering many hours of live performances, descargas, master classes and discussions online. What is on offer is incredible so if you are a Cuban music or jazz fan you must feast on it now!

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